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The amount of peanut butter must be perfectly equal to jelly when Krystal Thomas makes a sandwich. "I have to make it the same way my mom did," said the 6-foot-5 center for the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury. "I eat oatmeal every single morning because she used to feed all of us oatmeal out of one big bowl. "She's made me pretty much everything that I am as a woman today. She's the person that challenged me, that pushed me, that was tough on me but also loved me to the ends of the earth." Thomas, an Orlando native and former First Academy standout, lost her mother, Natalie, to breast cancer when she was 16, five years after her father, Victor, was...

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